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The book "Look How Beautiful the Ferns" by Branko Belan is a collection of short stories set in the Mediterranean milieu, which is characteristic of Belan's literary work.
The anthology, edited and translated by Zdravko Malić, a leading Croatian Polish scholar and founder of the Polish Language Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zagreb, represents a key selection of Polish short fiction from the 20th century.
The book contains about twenty stories connected into one whole by the main character (the writer Oskar). It is, therefore, a kind of novel that, through intimate confessions, actually talks about the loneliness of the modern intellectual.
A series of children's stories about the kind-hearted doctor John Dolittle who learns to talk to animals, becomes a veterinarian and experiences adventures: he treats monkeys in Africa, sails the sea, rescues a naturalist, encounters pirates and visits ma
Collections of short stories from Roman life in the post-war era: ordinary people from the people and the petty bourgeoisie – the poor, workers, small craftsmen – face misery, survival, jealousy, petty deceit and moral compromises in everyday life.
The First Haircut, a short story written in 1970 and published in 1976, is the first in a series of prose pieces by Bohumil Hrabal describing Nymburk, the town where he spent his childhood. In 1981, The First Haircut was adapted for the screen by Jiry Men